TY  - BOOK
PY  - 2002
DA  - 2002//
TI  - economics of skills obsolescence
T3  - Emerald insight
PB  - Emerald
CY  - Bingley, U.K
KW  - Social Science
KW  - General
KW  - Labour economics
KW  - Labor economics
KW  - Labor supply
KW  - United States
KW  - Labor supply ; United States
KW  - Social Science ; General
AB  - Increasingly policy makers are focusing on the importance of skills and lifelong learning. The reason for this is that workers with sufficient and up-to-date skills are more productive and have more potential to remain employed. However, the processes that influence skill obsolescence, have largely been neglected in labor economics. It was in the 1990s that skill issues came to the top of the agenda, because of the general awareness of the rapid technological developments that affect the demand for human capital. Although the analysis of skill-biased technological change is at the heart of this debate, in recent years, the literature has become wider than simple consideration of this aspect and has started to embrace other causes of obsolescence. The papers in this volume are selected from the papers presented at a conference on Understanding Skills Obsolescence. They advance both the theoretical and empirical understanding of the causes and the effects of skills obsolescence
SN  - 9781849501750
UR  - https://www.emerald.com/insight/publication/doi/10.1016/S0147-9121(2002)21
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1016/S0147-9121(2002)21
DO  - 10.1016/S0147-9121(2002)21
LA  - English
N1  - Edited by Andries de Grip, Jasper van Loo, Ken Mayhew
ID  - 653993625
ER  -